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[eugen.soare at gmail.com]

So this is just a general question, Is Asterisk really good?

Reliability?

Functionality?

Customization's?
I am coming from a Nortel world, were you pay for everything, and you
can't delve into the software. But it seems that customization would be
a great thing.
Like, setting up a war-dialer to customer lists, incoming/outgoing
faxes (that's possible with Asterisk, right?) and making your own cool
voice mail stuff.

But before I delve into it, I thought a question to the community would
be in order.

2 more questions.

1 - Can you really make free outgoing calls from let's say Portland OR,
to Frankfurt Germany?
2 - What would it take to set one up? cards / computer power / pricing
on software? What has your experience been?

Thank you for taking time to look at this post!
Eugen

[Dean at cognation.net]

Hi Eugene,
Yes it's that good.

All the functionality you posted is possible.

Regarding your international calls, nothing more is required than two
asterisk servers (one at each location) and a broadband connection -
cards are only used to connect into pstn or isdn.

Why don't you start with a preformatted iso like trixbox or druid and
then jump into coding your own once you know what you are doing.

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Pty Ltd
dean at cognation.net
+1-212-203-4357 Ph
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).

[asterisk.org at sedwar...]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Eugen Soare wrote:

[abalashov at evaristes...]

Steve Edwards wrote:

[Dean at cognation.net]

BTW Eugene, was just reading Tom Keatings blog (he's a pretty well known
reporter around here), he was just talking about a new commercial
appliance called CogoBlue that you could send to the person at the other
end if they don't know anything about voip or pabx's to make it even
easier for them to setup calls at their end.

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/asterisk/ispbx-launches-asterisk
-appliances-with-cogoblue-asterisk-gui.asp


Cheers,
Dean

[bwentdg at pipeline.com]

Remember - True TELCO grade systems simply cannot be compared to
anything else.
You want the reliability , uptime, and all the bells and whistles of
true Carrier Grade Hardware/Software
then you pay for it. If you want something "you" can tinker under the
hood with and do some cool
stuff with, Asterisk is it. BUT - by it need NORTEL PBX reliability or
the power and flexibility
of a big Rockwell ACD, get out your check book. The two are not the same.

Eugen Soare wrote:

[jsignorello at ispbx.com]

Asterisk as a PBX is fantastic. It offers the features found in the most
sophisticated traditional

Until now the third party PBX configuration software has not had the
sophistication of
Asterisk product itself. Check out cogoblue.com It is a visual drag and
drop configuration tool that
is powerful yest simple to use.

Eugen Soare wrote:

[tilghman at mail.jeffa...]

On Thursday 10 April 2008 15:43:33 John Signorello wrote:

[jra at baylink.com]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:05:47PM -0400, Al Baker wrote:

[hwit at a-domani.nl]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 16:05 -0400, Al Baker wrote:

[bwentdg at pipeline.com]

Quote"

And for what it's worth, at my new job I babysit about a 16-machine
cluster running VICIdial for close to 200 agents, and by and large, it
just runs. It's got about 20 T-1s feeding it"

Please share more about this.

What/How are you "clustering" the boxes ?

Is this all VOIP or TDMF front and VOIP for agents in back ?

What kind of Boxes ? What O/S

What tools are you using to monitor this big-azz mother ?

Thx in in advance for sharing !!

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

[jra at baylink.com]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:49:26PM -0400, Al Baker wrote:

[vincent.delporte at bi...]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:46:48 -0700, Eugen Soare
<eugen.soare at gmail.com> wrote:

[astmattf at gmail.com]

On 4/10/08, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

[jra at baylink.com]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:11:45PM -0700, Eugen Soare wrote: